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gelid
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Word definitions for gelid in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I called her name, but received no answer, only an echo ringing in the gelid air.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Latin gelidus "icy cold," from gelum "frost, intense cold" (see cold (adj.)).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gelid \Gel"id\ (j[e^]l"[i^]d), a. [L. gelidus, fr. gelu frost, cold. See Cold , and cf. Congeal , Gelatin , Jelly .] Cold; very cold; frozen. ``Gelid founts.'' --Thompson.
Usage examples of gelid.
The air was pungent with undeath, the gelid exhalation of dying ice, filled with something like loss.
This was old anger, held back overlong, now turning the air gelid and brittle.
Its scores of paddle legs trembled in vain effort against the gelid water.
Then the howl turned into a chorus, and Steele turned, would have fled, but a shapeless and gelid force grasped him, pulled him back into the room.
Bloated dead vines the size of fire hoses draped limply across the floor, extending out from the livid, gelid mass.
She got paler, and there was a disturbingly gelid cast around her eyes and cheeks, as though the pottery glaze were on the verge of melting.
Grendel might have lived somewhere like this, deep and gelid and secret.
He reached the bottom of the slope below the supermarket and saw what he initially took to be a pile of brown rags, but closer inspection revealed a rigid hand, its fingers clutching the gelid air as if trying to take hold on life itself.
And where they looked next morning the frozen pond was gone in an unblemished expanse of white under a leaden sky undisturbed by the flight of a single bird in the gelid stillness that had descended to seize every detail of reed and branch as though time itself were frozen out there threatening the clatter of teacups and silver and the siege of telephoning that had already begun with well when, just tell me when I can talk to him, will you tell him I called?
Her eyes darted to the door and a late arrival squirmed under her gelid stare as he found a seat.
Drelb shifted a little, settling into a comfortable blob of gelid protoplasm and retracting her white, delicate-fingered hands back into her body mass.
For an instant, the scene seemed Daliesque, gelid, the air full of water and beans.